Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who identifies as a Roman Catholic, lectured Americans Tuesday on why they should vote not based on their religious views but on how politics will influence their lives.

"Give some advice to those who are frustrated by our politics now," MSNBC host Joy Reid requested of Pelosi.

Reid asked Pelosi to speak to Americans directly and convince them "to vote not on how politics will impact your religion, but how it will impact your life. You’re a religious person," Reid said to Pelosi. 

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Pelosi referenced John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic President of the United States, in her answer. 

"'It’s not important what religion I believe in. What’s important is what America I believe in,’" Pelosi said, quoting Kennedy. 

"And that’s what we have to be thinking in terms of taking it to people," she said. 

She also seemingly used the opportunity to take potshots at former President Donald Trump and his supporters. 

"I do think that many of the people who fell for what’s-his-name’s line, because they just didn’t see a path in the future, in the economy the way it was. I think many of them are really patriotic. I think some of them are racist and bigots, but I think many of them are very patriotic."

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Pelosi addressed Republican members of Congress in the same interview, telling them that their "political survival is nothing compared to the survival of our children in their schools, in their playgrounds, wherever they happen to be."

It was a reference to the Nashville, Tennessee shooting from Monday, during which 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender, opened fire on students and staff at a private Christian school in an attack that shocked the country. 

Hale was shot dead by police after killing six, including three children. 

Pelosi, President Joe Biden and other Democratic Party leaders have called on Congress to ban assault weapons in the wake of the shooting. 

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Pelosi also drew attention last week for calling out San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone after he barred her from receiving communion within his church.

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Archbishop Cordileone told Pelosi that she would have to renounce her support for abortion and go to Confession before she could be allowed to receive communion within the Church.

Fox News’ Brie Stimson contributed to this report. 

Kansas is moving to increase its legal age for buying cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products to 21 from 18 after the federal government and most other states already have done it.

The state Senate approved a bill to raise the age Tuesday on a 28-11 vote, sending it Gov. Laura Kelly. The House had approved it earlier this month on a 68-53 vote.

Kelly has not said whether she will sign the bill, but officials with the state Department of Revenue and the Department for Aging and Disability Services supported the measure. Public health officials believe raising the age to purchase tobacco products will reduce their use and the resulting health care costs.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death, disease and disability in the U.S. and nine out of 10 adults who smoke started by age 18.

Forty-one other states have increased their legal age to 21, including the tobacco-producing states of Kentucky and Virginia. The federal government raised its age to 21 in 2019 and told states they'd have to enforce the higher age to receive federal funds for substance abuse programs.